CSXT has reported it is working with Tropicana to inaugurate
a new Juice Train to begin operating between Bradenton, Florida, and Union
Township, Ohio (near Cincinnati), early next year. Initially, it will involve
at least 30 cars per week.

CSXT Inaugurates New Cumberland-Richmond Trains

New CSXT trains Q414 and Q415 are now operating between
Cumberland and Richmond's Acca Yard as part of a plan to improve service
reliability and eliminate the need for second sections. The plan included
the reroute of 39 cars per day moving between the Carolinas and Chicago,
according to the CSXT Employee News Service.

Norfolk Southern Begins Double-Stack Service from Kansas
City & Chicago to Northeastern Pennsylvania

Norfolk Southern has begun new daily double-stack intermodal
service directly connecting Kansas City and Chicago with Taylor Yard in
northeastern Pennsylvania. The service also includes an intermediate stop
at Bellevue, Ohio, for traffic originating and terminating in the Columbus
area, according to a press release.

Norfolk Southern is replacing its old N&W-style color-position
light signals with Southern-style color-light signals on its line between
Hagerstown, Maryland, and Riverton Junction, Virginia.

A "Vigil" at the Station Inn

[From a feature story] . . . . The renowned Station Inn
along the Conrail mainline at Cresson, Pennsylvania, was the setting for
a 24-hour railfanning vigil for members of the Cherry Run Railroad Club
on Memorial Day weekend. Twenty-one happy participants crammed the 1860's
era railroad hotel to partake of games, a cookout, slide presentations,
video tapes, train watching, and camaraderie. Sleeping was optional.

Seventy-three trains were counted passing the inn - recorded
on a train sheet the same as if the participants were manning a tower -
during the vigil period beginning exactly at noon on Saturday and ending
at noon on Sunday. This, coincidentally, is more than three times the one-train-an-hour
average guarantee offered by the inn's railfan proprietor to guests who
get half their money back if this average is not achieved.

Saturday afternoon was spent watching trains from the
porch, with games on the lawn, and a cookout in the parking lot next to
the tracks. As darkness fell, slides were shown: first on the porch, then
in the ballroom downstairs, later in the common room, and finally back
on the porch. The skies were beginning to brighten when the last of the
slides were shown on Sunday morning.

The Cherry Run Railroad Club enjoys a nomadic presence
by staging twice-a-year outings at selected locations indigenous to railfanning.
This was the club's first all-night affair.

Conrail Donates MO Tower to Borough of Cresson

Conrail has donated MO Tower to the borough of Cresson,
Pennsylvania. The building is slated to be moved to a new location in a
lineal park between the Conrail tracks and Front Street in Cresson, about
a quarter of a mile from its former working site. The borough will cover
the estimated $4500 cost of the move, according to a press report.

MO Tower, which closed in December 1994, dates from an
earlier structure built circa 1855 and replaced following flood damage
in 1889. Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who in early years was a PRR telegraph
operator, is reputed to have conducted an experiment while working at MO
Tower one night about 1860 involving the drawing of current from the aurora
borealis to power the telegraph circuit between Cresson and Pittsburgh.

The tower will be placed upon a foundation, and then it
will be refurbished by the Cresson Railroad Preservation Society. No date
for the move has been set.